| Great White Shark are one of the 3 species that attacks humans.Sharks
have existed as a group over 350 million years ago.Great White Sharks
eat their own pups when the pups go near their mother.White Sharks are
predatory animals that begin life by feeding on fish,rays,and other
sharks.Great White Sharks weigh over 7,000 lbs.Large White Sharks will
also scavenge on the carcaThey will occasionally feed on sea turtles and
sea otters, and are known to attack, but not eat, humans.sses of whale
sharks and on fat rich blubber layer of dead whales.They will
occasionally feed on sea turtles and sea otters, and are known to
attack, but not eat, human. The waters off central California
offer a rich bounty of food for white sharks, and every summer and fall
they actively feed in nearshore areas.Great White Sharks eat people
because they think that you are a seal.Their first mammalian prey are
usually the small harbor seal, but as the sharks increase in
size, they become large enough to eat sea lions, elephant seals,
and small toothed whales.Shark cage-diving is when a group of
tourists, or those who wish to study the sharks up close are
lowered into the water beside a boat, protected by a steel
cage.Other incidents seem to be cases of mistaken identity, in
which a shark ambushes a bather or surfer, usually from below,
believing the silhouette it sees on the surface is a seal.Humans,
in any case, are not healthy for great white sharks to eat
because the sharks' digestion is too slow to cope with the human
body's high ratio of bone to muscle and fat.Their food includes
other sharks, fish, sea lions, seals and other marine mammals,
turtles, small whales. |
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| Attack strategy
consists of a swift, surprise attack from below, inflicting a
large, potentially fatal bite.The pinniped often dies from
massive trauma or blood loss, but the bites may be superficial
or misplaced on the body, allowing the seal to escape and
survive the attacks with their scars as witness.Many sharks are
efficient and specialized hunters that have thrived for millions
of years.Although many people are told that sharks are primitive
in comparison to other groups, this is not true.The waters off
central California offer a rich bounty of food for white sharks,
and every summer and fall they actively feed in nearshore
areas..The Great White is between
12-16 feet long, and can grow up to 19-21 feet. There is another
main reason why the Great White is the most feared fish for
humans.The coastal waters along central California,
especially around the Aņo Nuevo State Reserve and along the
Marin Headlands, is another common feeding area for the
sharks.In the summer the sharks feed on seals and sea
lions.Great white sharks are harmful animals.Companies respond
that they are being made the scapegoats, as people try to find
someone to blame for shark attacks on humans.However some
researchers have hypothesized that the reason the proportion of
fatalities is low is not because sharks do not like human flesh,
but because humans are often able to get out of the water after
the shark's first bite.Great White
Sharks live in all coastal temperate waters, and have been known
to occasionally make dives into the deep water of open oceans.Media
sensationalism and widespread ignorance has given the white
shark a bad rap. |
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